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Bid to step up livestock feed production begins

Livestock feeding at a stand during farmer's exhibition at KALRO centre in Naivasha in March 2023. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

The Ministry of Agriculture now says that the country needs an additional 2.2m acres of fodder to address the current shortage of livestock feed.

The ministry attributed the high cost of livestock feed in the country to low production and high post-harvest losses, which stood at 40 per cent.

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